An Israeli police officer was sentenced to nine months in jail on Wednesday for shooting and killing a Palestinian teenage protester in 2014. The Jerusalem District Court found policeman Ben Deri, 24, guilty of negligent homicide and also ordered to pay 50,000 shekels ($14,000) to the family of Nadeem Nuwarah, who was 17. Nuwara was killed on May 15, 2014 during a day of clashes in Beitunia, south of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, between Israeli forces and Palestinian protesters marking the anniversary of what the Arabs term the Nakba, or "catastrophe", of the 1948 creation of Israel. The court ruled that Nuwara did not pose an immediate threat on Deri’s life. It said that Deri exhibited a "high degree of negligence" when he loaded his weapon with a live bullet rather than the rubber coated bullets typically used to disperse Palestinian demonstrations. The incident was documented by video footage. The footage recorded by US broadcaster CNN captured a group of five or six border police officers in the area, one of whom could be seen firing at the time when the youth was hit. Deri agreed to a plea bargain that dropped the charge from manslaughter to causing severe bodily harm and death through negligence. The sentencing comes as Palestinians and Israelis prepare for another commemoration of the "Nakba" on May 15.